Month: August 2021

By Conleith Selenje The outcome of the Nyasaland Economic Symposium was echoed worldwide. The attendees spoke and wrote of its success and marveled at how topics touching the economy of Nyasaland and Africa intertwined with world economics. Nyasaland as an upcoming economy on the road to its independence became recognized and Dunduzu Chisiza Snr earned…

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By Conleith Selenje In July 1962 a high-powered delegation comprising Dunduzu Chisiza Snr(Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance), James Cameron(Minister of Works and Transport), and Mikeka Mkandawire(Minister without Portfolio) had an audience with Kamuzu.It was an audience to complain of the conduct of Kanyama Chiume(Minister of Education). The complaint was that Kanyama Chiume was…

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By Conleith Selenje The Nyasaland Minister of Finance, Henry Phillips was grooming Dunduzu Chisiza for a take over of the ministerial office at independence. All was in place. On 16th April 1962, Henry Phillips and Dunduzu Chisiza left Nyasaland for London on official errands. Two days later reports circulated in the media that Nyasaland would…

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By Conleith Selenje Dunduzu Chisiza’s election to parliament,his party position of Secretary General and his post of Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance placed his life on two parallel tracks, danger and success. As Nyasaland went to the polls of August 1961, Henry Masauko Chipembere was serving a prison sentence for sedition at the…

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By Conleith Selenje After he had been recalled by Kamuzu from England where he was studying for his higher education in Economics at Fircoft  College in Birmingham,England, Dunduzu Chisiza Snr arrived in Nyasaland and joined the liberation struggle for self-rule and ending the Federation. In 1958 he was appointed Secretary General of the Nyasaland African…

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